How Chelsea can easily make £115m without selling a first-team star through forgotten loanees like Morata and Bakayoko
DUE to the ongoing global coronavirus pandemic it is looking financially rather bleak for the world on the whole, and football clubs will surely be affected.
They face playing the foreseeable future without fans, which means no gate receipts.
Of course, big clubs gain the majority of their income via sponsorship, shirt sales and from TV coverage.
However, clubs will need to be a little wiser with their potential transfer business when the window does reopen this summer.
Chelsea will probably be one of the clubs better off due to not being allowed to spend last summer whilst under a transfer ban and having the £88 million fee from Eden Hazard.
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But they can put themselves in an even better position in the summer by selling the following 7 loan players alone, who in my opinion are now surplus to requirements at the club.
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Alvaro Morata - £48 million.
Atletico Madrid have an obligation to buy Morata from Chelsea for £48 million, another master class from Blues’ director Marina Granovskaia.
It is quite incredible to think that Chelsea are about to get this amount of money for a player who totally flopped at the club, this will be our best bit of business this summer.
Tiemoue Bakayoko - £30 million.
Bakayoko also flopped at Chelsea and has spent time on loan at AC Milan and Monaco since then.
He reportedly has a few clubs interested in signing him and should still fetch over £30 million.
Matt Miazga - £1.8 million.
Won’t exactly bring in a fortune, but we might as well cash in on him now.
The 24-year old American really has no chance of making it as a Chelsea player at this stage.
Davide Zappacosta - £10.8 million.
We really should have sold him last summer, but Zappacosta will fetch us a nice little sum this summer regardless.
There is absolutely zero point of another loan move.
Danny Drinkwater - £4.32 million.
Chelsea signed Drinkwater for £40 million and they are set to lose a lot of money on this deal.
However, just like Zappacosta, there is no point in sending him on any more loan deals, just take the loss and get some cash back.
Mario Pasalic - £14.4 million.
The forgotten midfielder is currently on loan at Atalanta.
They have an option to buy him for around £13 million and it looks like they might use that. But other clubs are also interested.
Victor Moses - £6.12 million.
Unbelievably, Moses has been at Chelsea since 2012 but has spent time on loan at 5 different clubs.
Chelsea must cash in on him now before losing him on a free next summer.
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This brings the total to over £100 million.
In perspective, these are players that will never play for Chelsea again.
And in times of these financial uncertainties, Chelsea would be very wise to be working on selling these players as I type this.